CA-PATIENT-SAFETY-MOVEME

The Patient
Safety Movement Foundation
(PSMF) announced today that former Vice
President Joe Biden will deliver the keynote address on the first day of
the 5th Annual World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit to be
held February 3rd
& 4th
2017.

“We are honored to have Vice President Biden join us again and provide
the keynote on the first day of our Summit,” stated Joe Kiani, Founder
and Chairman of the Patient Safety Movement Foundation. “Vice President
Biden has been a longtime supporter of the Patient Safety Movement and
has transformed cancer research and collaboration. We hope one day due
to his work, deaths due to cancer will be as preventable as deaths due
to medical errors in hospitals.”

Last year, Patient Safety Movement awarded President Barack Obama and
Vice President Joe Biden the Humanitarian Award for the Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Acts (ACA). Not only has their work
allowed more people to have access to healthcare, but through the new
payment incentives, over 125,000 lives have been saved from preventable
deaths.

More than 200,000 people die every year in U.S. hospitals and 3 million
worldwide in ways that could have been prevented. The Patient Safety
Movement Foundation was established through the support of the Masimo
Foundation for Ethics, Innovation, and Competition in Healthcare, to
reduce that number of preventable deaths to 0 by 2020 (0x2020).
Improving patient safety will require a collaborative effort from all
stakeholders, including patients, healthcare providers, medical
technology companies, government, employers, and private payers. The
Patient Safety Movement Foundation works with all stakeholders to
address the problems and solutions of patient safety. The Foundation
also convenes Patient Safety, Science and Technology summits. The
Summits bring together some of the world’s best minds for
thought-provoking discussions and new ideas to challenge the status quo.
By presenting specific, high-impact recipes to meet patient safety
challenges, called Actionable Patient Safety Solutions, encouraging
medical technology companies to share the data for whom their products
are purchased, and asking hospitals to make commitments to implement
Actionable Patient Safety Solutions, Patient Safety Movement is working
toward zero preventable deaths by 2020. Visit http://patientsafetymovement.org/
.